Jimmy Carter is the first American president to reach 100. Locals in his hometown of Plains, Ga., are excited to celebrate ...

The National Guard, using Blackhawk helicopters, has dropped supplies outside the Carter County general store, a bustling hub for flood relief.

The multi-faceted store has been a mainstay in Eastover for more than 40 years, and Carter was an almost daily fixture at the ...

Before he was president, Carter grew up on a farm in Georgia. He helped harvest cotton, peanuts, sugar cane, and corn before ...

Do you recognize this man? Police say he beat an employee unconscious while trying to rob a Gwinnett County convenience store ...

Shyam Tallury oversees a gene bank that preserves peanut materials from around the globe. He recalls being in college in 1976 ...

When Zachary Carter started his business two years ago, he went to the store and got his hands on every single brand of ...

In Plains, Ga., you can still find Jimmy Carter's childhood home, his old school and even his campaign headquarters when he ran for president in 1976.

The afterlives of political leaders are often greater measures of their character than their times in office are. It’s hard ...

In this otherwise unassuming corner of west Georgia, “Carter culture” blossomed, marked by faith, curiosity, and service that melded into Carter’s bones.

In 1998, at the ripe age of 74, former President Carter put some of his thoughts about getting older to paper. “The virtues ...

When James Earl Carter Jr. was born in 1924 in the small farming town of Plains, Ga., the U.S. still had 48 states. Wheaties cereal was just making its debut on grocery store shelves, President ...